Short Tongued

Word SHORT TONGUED
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A few of the short-tongued species, however, manage to feed on long-tube flowers by “nectar robbing”. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Pollination is carried out instead by flies, moths, beetles, and short-tongued bees that are attracted primarily by white and yellow flowers. ❋ Unknown (2008)

If I am a short-tongued fellow, it may amount to the same thing. ❋ Unknown (2004)

Obtusilingues: short-tongued bees with the tip obtuse or bifid: see acutilingues. ❋ John. B. Smith (N/A)

"Goodness!" said Jimmie, "if that is what a short-tongued bee can do, what can a long-tongued bee do?" ❋ Julia Moody (1919)

Then there are the little short-tongued bees who live in apartments, the apartments all clustered together, with a common wide passageway into the ground and separate hallways. ❋ Julia Moody (1919)

His voice was soft and harmonious, with just a trace of a lisp, or rather of that peculiar intonation which is commonly described as "short-tongued." ❋ George William Erskine Russell (1886)

Our native dandelions are attractive plants that support long-tongued bees (bumblebees, honeybees, little Carpenter bees, Mason bees), short-tongued bees, predatory wasps, butterflies, skippers and beetles. ❋ Unknown (2010)

"In North America, there have been drastic declines in one subgenus of short-tongued bees," ❋ Unknown (2010)

A few of the short-tongued species, however, manage to feed on long-tube flowers by "nectar robbing". ❋ Unknown (2009)

Most of the small, blue, or purple flowered members of the mint family cater to bees by wearing their favorite color; the bergamot charms butterflies with magenta, and tubes so deep the short-tongued mob cannot pilfer their sweets; and from the frequency of the humming bird's visits, from the greater depth of the Bee Balm's tubes and their brilliant, flaring red -- an irresistibly attractive color to the ruby-throat -- it would appear that this is a bird flower. ❋ Neltje Blanchan (1891)

"I know an interesting short-tongued bee who lives in a house by herself. ❋ Julia Moody (1919)

I could not learn whether the ceremony of blessing each batch of the liqueur, before sending it out to intoxicate the world, is performed with so much solemnity at Grâce-Dieu as at Grenoble; and, indeed, it rests only on the assertion of the short-tongued Bisuntian that the manufacture is carried on at all at the former place. [ ❋ Unknown (1881)

Pebbles, from the galleries dug in a roadside bank by the Colletes (A short-tongued Burrowing-bee known also as the Melitta. ❋ Jean-Henri Fabre (1869)

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